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In team sports, Gijón's professional football team, Sporting de Gijón, currently plays in the Spanish second division. CP Gijón Solimar is one of the most important women's roller hockey teams in Europe as it is five times champion of the European Cup. Círculo Gijón is the main basketball team of the city, and plays in Spanish basketball ...
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was born in Rome on 5 November 1968, [1] to a Spanish father Ángel Sánchez-Gijón Martínez , a history lecturer exiled from Francoism, and an Italian mother, Fiorella de Angelis, a lecturer. [2] She was named after Aitana Alberti, [n. 1] Rafael Alberti's daughter.
1934 – Fighting takes place in the city, in the context of the Spanish 1934 revolution. [15] 1936 – Siege of Gijón takes place, during Spanish Civil War. 1940 – Population: 101,341. [4] 1941 Isabel la Católica Park (the main park in Gijón) opens. [16] Gijón bus station begins operation.
The Gijón Sport Club introduced the sport of football in the region, which eventually became a mass phenomenon among the youth of Gijón, with both its rules of play and its clothing serving as a reference for other teams of the time, including Sporting Gijonés, which was founded by Anselmo López and his young friends in 1905, and which would later become Sporting Gijón.
Real Sporting de Gijón, S.A.D. (Spanish pronunciation: [reˈal esˈpoɾtin de xiˈxon]), commonly known as Real Sporting, Sporting Gijón, or simply Sporting is a Spanish professional football club from Gijón, Principality of Asturias. Founded on 1 July 1905, it plays in the Segunda Division.
The International Bagpipe Museum (Spanish: Museo internacional de la gaita) is located in Gijón, Asturias, Spain.The museum was founded in 1965, and moved to its current location, integrated in the Museum of the Asturian People, in 1975.
The designer of Elogio del Horizonte, Basque sculptor Eduardo Chillida, came up with the idea for the statue and began seeking an oceanside location for it in 1985.His search ended in 1986 when the city government of Gijón offered him a spot on the city's coast on the Cerro de Santa Catalina, overlooking the Cantabrian Sea.
Gijón (or, in Asturian, Xixón; official name: Gijón/Xixón) is one of eight comarcas (this is the Spanish word; the Asturian is cotarros), administrative divisions of Asturias, which is a province and an autonomous community in Spain. [1] The comarca of Gijón is divided into three municipalities (in Asturian conceyos). [2] From east to west ...